Sentence examples for whether or why from inspiring English sources

But not even being able to say whether, or why, an executive has been arrested is worse.

Nor could she say whether, or why, a Times employee entered the inaccurate revenue and headcount figures.

Each of the three replays, in flashback, her marriage to consider whether or why it might be over.

There remains the question, however, of whether or why these requirements (especially that of the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem) are intrinsic to the nature of logic.

It was far more enticing than a screen saver, but without a narrative it was hard to know whether, or why, I should keep going.

A flurry of angry commentary has followed in the Indian press and beyond, along with a discussion of whether or why Indian writers crave foreign approval, especially from Brits.

Interrogative expressions can be embedded (as wh-complements or indirect questions) into attitude contexts to form sentences that are declarative, as when someone is said to know, tell, care, or wonder who, what, whether, how, or why.

For example, one type of question for skill 3 asked students whether (and why or why not) a marked set of two or three taxa comprise a clade in the given cladogram.

It is unclear whether that works or why you'd need your uterus cleansed in the first place.

Kurtz thinks the media tip-toed around the race elephant in the room, and I tend to agree — while everyone fretted that the use of the word "cocaine" was deliberate to invoke an association to associations with inner-city crack dens, no one actually examined whether it would, or why.

It is unclear whether Mr. Schiavetti knew Mr. Williams or why he was in Montclair.